Juliya Walknut

Juliya Walknut is a painter based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She works primarily in watercolor and oil. With a professional background in film, where she engaged closely with the human face and body, her visual language draws on an understanding of surface, presence, and emotional detail. Her work focuses on the body as a threshold between the visible and invisible, the personal and collective. She addresses themes of silence, tension, repetition, and fragmentation, with a particular focus on femininity as internal negotiation and nature as a reflection of the emotional self.